Experimental Jumpsuit - pattern combining

So, I'm still trying to make myself a thing per month this year. I wanted to try out a few things ... and did them all while making this jumpsuit.

I wanted to paint with the fabric inks I bought about a year ago and hadn't used yet.
I wanted to combine two patterns to make a jumpsuit. 
And I wanted to sew something with hemp fabric.

Today I will talk about the pattern, on Wednesday the hemp and dying and painting on Friday.

These are the two patterns I used. This is a favorite blouse pattern of mine. I've made it up a couple times already. And the pants are just a good basic pattern.

To make a jumpsuit out of separate blouse and pants patterns the waist marking is really important.

But, first I draw in all the stitching lines. When fiddling around with a pattern it is really important to work from the stitching line, not the cutting, line for best results.

I plan to make a whole new pattern. I'm using doctor exam table paper. It's cheap, transparent and fairly strong. So, I now can start tracing the blouse.

After I trace the blouse down to the waist, I lay the waist of the pant pattern so it lines up with the waist of the blouse along the center front line. You can see the dart of the blouse and the dart of the pants don't line up.  I reason that the placement of the blouse dart is more important because it lines up with he bust point the pants dart is for the hip which is not in a specific spot like the bust. So I slide the pattern over to make the hip dart from the pants line up with the bust dart from the blouse.

When both parts of the dart are traced I slide the pattern back so the center front lines match up again. BUT! the bust dart is larger than the hip dart.

Not a problem, it can just be smoothed out.  I ran into other problems, the worst being that the blouse had MUCH MORE wearing ease than the pants. So I decided to just use a larger size from the pants pattern so it matched up better with the blouse. I figured maybe a jumpsuit shouldn't fit too tight AND you can always trim fabric off ... harder to put more on.

Here is my front pattern piece.

And OOPS! I guess I don't want that larger pants size.

AND, I'm being reckless. This is not muslin, although it looks like it. This is my hemp, which I will be dying. When being reckless, cutting large is wise.

So, I needed to do LOTS of fitting.

While fitting I check mobility!  Didn't want something I couldn't sit down in.

So, I got the fit eventually.  And you can see I had fun painting. More about that on Friday.

BUT ... sigh ... hemp is just like linen. Wrinkles like mad ... all part of my experiment.